Architecture: Cityscapes (AMATEUR) - HONORABLE MENTION
AROUND USA SERIE 2016

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Resume:
Emmanuel Monzon, French photographer and plastic artist .Living in Seattle.
He has exhibited his works mainly in France (Paris), England (London), Singapore, USA (Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, Portland), China (Hong Kong), and has also participated in several arts fairs and collective exhibitions. He graduated from the Beaux Arts in Paris, with honors (Vladimir Velikovick), and also holds a degree in Visual Arts.
Statement:
URBAN SPRAWL
My work mainly focuses on the idea of urban sprawling and the urban expansion of its periphery.
When a banal landscape presents itself, I try to photography it like a romantic painting: zero effects, no amplitude, nothing huge. I am only trying to be stronger than “this big nothing” in controlling the space by framing the subject.
From my point of view, this urban banality has its own aesthetic which obeys to its own rules: ban of living objects, a precise geometrical organization, revealing a specific physical and mental landscape which talks about the lines blurring between cities and suburbs, between suburbs and countryside, a process that results in an independent identity.
This aesthetic of the emptiness in my photographic work attempts to understand our current environment: Can it be one of de-civilization?
SELECTION: EXHIBITIONS/AWARDS: 2014-2015
2016 USA: BLACK BOX GALLERY-Black And White 2016- Portland-USA
2016 USA: LACDA- Los Angeles Center Digital Art-INT-SALON ELECTRON-CA
2015 USA: GALLERY 110-`Small Works-Seattle-WA
2015 USA: Los Angeles Center Digital Art-INT-SALON ELECTRON-CA
2015 USA: DAVE BOWN PROJECTS PHOTO 2015: was curated by Brian Paul Clamp, Director, Gallery ClampArt, New York; and Karen Irvine, Curator and Associate Director, Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago. http://davebownprojects.com/photo2015.html
2015 USA: LACDA-Los Angeles Center Digital Art-INT-SALON ELECTRON-CA
2015 USA: ART FORWARD CONTESTS-PHOTOGRAPHY-INT- MY ART MY VISION-2015-JUROR: CRISTA DIX –DIRECTOR WALL SPACE GALLERY PHOTOGRAPHY-CA- BRONZE AWARD WINNER 2015
2015 LONDON: FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2014/2015-INT- HONORABLE MENTION WINNER
2015 FRANCE: THE FIFTH ANNUAL EXPOSURE PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD-INT- CANDID COLLECTION BOOK-LE LOUVRE-PARIS
2015 USA: A SMITH GALLERY-“STILL”-PHOTOGRAPHY- JURIED BY KATE BREAKEY-TX
2015 USA: LACDA-Los Angeles Center Digital Art-INT-SALON ELECTRON-CA
2015 USA: VIRIDIAN ARTISTS GALLERY-“DIRECTOR’ CHOICE”-NEW YORK-NY
2015 USA: GALLERY RYAN JAMES-“URBAN SPRAWL”- PHOTOGRAPHY-SEATTLE (KIRKLAND)-WA
2015 USA: 4TH ANNUEL J.H PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION-EXPERIMENTAL/ABSTRACT- INT JUROR: RAMAK FAZEL, KAROLINA KARLIC (Guggenheim Fellowship) -WY
2015 USA: A SMITH GALLERY-“H20”- JURIED BY S GAYLE STEVENS- TX
2015 USA: ART FORWARD CONTESTS-PHOTOGRAPHY.INT-JUROR: JENNIFER SCHLESINGER, VERGE GALLERY. CA
BRONZE AWARD WINNER 2015
2015 USA: NVAL INTERNATIONAL JURIED PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW-JURIED BY: THOM SEMPERE (SF.MOMA) - CA
2015 USA: GALLERY 110 –“OUTSIDE LOOKING IN”-SEATTLE-WA
2015 USA: PHOTOGRAPHY CENTER OF CAPE COD-“FLUENT IN PHOTOGRAPHY”-JURIED BY: CALEB COLE- MA
2015 CHINA: GALLERY TUYING – PHOTOGRAPHY- HONG KONG
2015 USA: GALLERY BLACK BOX – “BLACK AND WHITE”- PHOTOGRAPHY -PORTLAND- JURIED BY: CHRIS BENNETT- OR
2015 USA: GALLERY 110 - “POLICE AT WORK” –PHOTOGRAPHY- SEATTLE-WA
2014 USA: GALLERY 110 - “TOY” – SEATTLE
2014 USA: GALLERY 110 - “A YEARNING FOR THE EMPTINESS”- PHOTOGRAPHY- SEATTLE
2014 USA: GALLERY 110 - “REFLECTIONS”- PHOTOGRAPHY - SEATTLE
He has exhibited his works mainly in France (Paris), Singapore, USA (Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, Portland), China (Hong Kong), and has also participated in several arts fairs and collective exhibitions. He graduated from the Beaux Arts in Paris, with honors (Vladimir Velikovick), and also holds a degree in Visual Arts.
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Resume:
Emmanuel Monzon, French photographer and plastic artist .Living in Seattle.
He has exhibited his works mainly in France (Paris), England (London), Singapore, USA (Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, Portland), China (Hong Kong), and has also participated in several arts fairs and collective exhibitions. He graduated from the Beaux Arts in Paris, with honors (Vladimir Velikovick), and also holds a degree in Visual Arts.
Statement:
URBAN SPRAWL
My work mainly focuses on the idea of urban sprawling and the urban expansion of its periphery.
When a banal landscape presents itself, I try to photography it like a romantic painting: zero effects, no amplitude, nothing huge. I am only trying to be stronger than “this big nothing” in controlling the space by framing the subject.
From my point of view, this urban banality has its own aesthetic which obeys to its own rules: ban of living objects, a precise geometrical organization, revealing a specific physical and mental landscape which talks about the lines blurring between cities and suburbs, between suburbs and countryside, a process that results in an independent identity.
This aesthetic of the emptiness in my photographic work attempts to understand our current environment: Can it be one of de-civilization?
SELECTION: EXHIBITIONS/AWARDS: 2014-2015
2016 USA: BLACK BOX GALLERY-Black And White 2016- Portland-USA
2016 USA: LACDA- Los Angeles Center Digital Art-INT-SALON ELECTRON-CA
2015 USA: GALLERY 110-`Small Works-Seattle-WA
2015 USA: Los Angeles Center Digital Art-INT-SALON ELECTRON-CA
2015 USA: DAVE BOWN PROJECTS PHOTO 2015: was curated by Brian Paul Clamp, Director, Gallery ClampArt, New York; and Karen Irvine, Curator and Associate Director, Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago. http://davebownprojects.com/photo2015.html
2015 USA: LACDA-Los Angeles Center Digital Art-INT-SALON ELECTRON-CA
2015 USA: ART FORWARD CONTESTS-PHOTOGRAPHY-INT- MY ART MY VISION-2015-JUROR: CRISTA DIX –DIRECTOR WALL SPACE GALLERY PHOTOGRAPHY-CA- BRONZE AWARD WINNER 2015
2015 LONDON: FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2014/2015-INT- HONORABLE MENTION WINNER
2015 FRANCE: THE FIFTH ANNUAL EXPOSURE PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD-INT- CANDID COLLECTION BOOK-LE LOUVRE-PARIS
2015 USA: A SMITH GALLERY-“STILL”-PHOTOGRAPHY- JURIED BY KATE BREAKEY-TX
2015 USA: LACDA-Los Angeles Center Digital Art-INT-SALON ELECTRON-CA
2015 USA: VIRIDIAN ARTISTS GALLERY-“DIRECTOR’ CHOICE”-NEW YORK-NY
2015 USA: GALLERY RYAN JAMES-“URBAN SPRAWL”- PHOTOGRAPHY-SEATTLE (KIRKLAND)-WA
2015 USA: 4TH ANNUEL J.H PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION-EXPERIMENTAL/ABSTRACT- INT JUROR: RAMAK FAZEL, KAROLINA KARLIC (Guggenheim Fellowship) -WY
2015 USA: A SMITH GALLERY-“H20”- JURIED BY S GAYLE STEVENS- TX
2015 USA: ART FORWARD CONTESTS-PHOTOGRAPHY.INT-JUROR: JENNIFER SCHLESINGER, VERGE GALLERY. CA
BRONZE AWARD WINNER 2015
2015 USA: NVAL INTERNATIONAL JURIED PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW-JURIED BY: THOM SEMPERE (SF.MOMA) - CA
2015 USA: GALLERY 110 –“OUTSIDE LOOKING IN”-SEATTLE-WA
2015 USA: PHOTOGRAPHY CENTER OF CAPE COD-“FLUENT IN PHOTOGRAPHY”-JURIED BY: CALEB COLE- MA
2015 CHINA: GALLERY TUYING – PHOTOGRAPHY- HONG KONG
2015 USA: GALLERY BLACK BOX – “BLACK AND WHITE”- PHOTOGRAPHY -PORTLAND- JURIED BY: CHRIS BENNETT- OR
2015 USA: GALLERY 110 - “POLICE AT WORK” –PHOTOGRAPHY- SEATTLE-WA
2014 USA: GALLERY 110 - “TOY” – SEATTLE
2014 USA: GALLERY 110 - “A YEARNING FOR THE EMPTINESS”- PHOTOGRAPHY- SEATTLE
2014 USA: GALLERY 110 - “REFLECTIONS”- PHOTOGRAPHY - SEATTLE
About author:
Emmanuel Monzon, French photographer and plastic artist .Living in Seattle.He has exhibited his works mainly in France (Paris), Singapore, USA (Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, Portland), China (Hong Kong), and has also participated in several arts fairs and collective exhibitions. He graduated from the Beaux Arts in Paris, with honors (Vladimir Velikovick), and also holds a degree in Visual Arts.
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